Offseason Point Task - 25th Anniversary Special

[Gwdjohnson]

To be entirely honest, I can't say the league as a whole has meant much to me, and if I am looking at things in a league wide kind of perspective, I do not really care that much about most things. But I really have to thank above all the Orange County Otters organization for being a great team full of great people I enjoy talking to on a consistent basis. When the whole situation with Jeff getting suspended happened, I was pretty ready to just quit the league because I was very angry with the decision and had all kinds of disagreements with the process (that's just water under the bridge though, whatever). But then I was invited by Jeff to the Orange County room just to hang around the locker room a bit, something that seems to be standard for prospects in this league. I really enjoyed the chill atmosphere of the room, that combined well with them being a hyper competitive team, and I was ready to just say that no other team would be able to match what I could get from being on the Otters. And this isn't even mentioning that I absolutely love otter emotes, namely cellyotter, so it was a match made in heaven.

I am a guy who spends a lot of sim league time on the Simulation Hockey League, as I have been a GM on there for a decent amount of time now and a very active figure around the site as a whole, so my time dedicated to here is very brief. Lots of times I have missed easy tasks like predictions or claiming affiliations on PTs, etc etc., and it has led to me being pretty far off a max earner. It is pretty discouraging sometimes to see how far behind the top I got, but playing for Orange County and contributing to their chill atmosphere whenever I can gives me a reason to stay active and make the most I can of this player. I mean, I just wrote 3000 words yesterday making a fake roast article of a teammate's mock draft. I wouldn't even do that on SHL lol.

To conclude, I think one of my favourite memories of something on the site would be when I was watching the draft in I believe Myrtle Beach voice chat with people. I was dying to go to OCO and rounds kept going by with me not being taken so I was getting extremely scared. Then I got hit with a fat slice of reality as it turned out I was mediocre enough of a prospect to fall all the way to the tail end of the sixth round, where OCO bagged me with the 70th pick. It was a hit to my ego, but one that was definitely compensated for by getting to play with this great team.



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